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Buddy Whittington (Joh Mayall's Bluesbreakers) & Jim Suhler (George Thorogood and the Destroyers) talk about the release of the fantastic album : Texas Scratch

Artist Ray Simon does a brillant production about Braking racial Barriers in the NFL. Everyone know about Jackie Robinson breaking baseball's colour line in 1947. Fans usually don't know that 1 year earlier, Marion Motley, Bill Williw, Woody Strode & Kenny Washington broke the NFL's colour barrier and forever changed the game

Jacob is an amazing young man! He's a songwriter, musician + i'm calling him a modern philosopher - many, me included, would say: an old soul . RARELY do i hear a song for the 1st time and LOVE IT! That's happened a number of times, already, with Jacob's music.

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Adam Dominick, Alex Kluchar, Brooke Jonas, Sarah Robles, Frank Carsone & David Leach

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Jimma McWilson has solutions to the failing schools in Youngstown,Ohio where, in the 2022 Ohio Dept of Education reports that 72.6% of students in high school are below proficient in reading. Jimma HAS solutions. Why aren't those in authority doing anything to help ?

The Cat I Never NamedA true story of LOVE, war and survival

The Good Grief Project's Jane Harris & Jimmy Edmonds

Dr. Richard Bandler, co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming NLP

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Steve Laffey is running for president 2024!stevelaffey.com

"Best Beatles Tribute on Earth" Rolling Stone

Between 1919 and 2017, the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed by U.S. retail pharmacies rose from 76 million to 526 million, while overdose deaths soared to tens of thousands annually. Yet a full 75% addictions began with prescription drugs.Lawfully Addicted is the eye-opening account of pharmacist Ray Carlson's years-long fight for patient's rights as the pharmacy industry transformed from small customer-centric drugstores to huge chain pharmacies that ignored a law (OBRA-90) that was intended to prevent a national opioid crisis.After reading this book, the public will understand the seeds of our epidemic and question the manner in which their prescriptions are filled by "big business"

The Box Tops is an American rock band formed in Memphis in 1967. They are best known for the hits "The Letter", "Cry Like a Baby", "Choo Choo Train," and "Soul Deep" and are considered a major blue-eyed soul group of the period. They performed a mixture of current soul music songs by artists such as James & Bobby Purify and Clifford Curry; pop tunes such as "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum; and songs written by their producers, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham, and Chips Moman. Vocalist Alex Chilton went on to front the power pop band Big Star and to launch a career as a solo artist, during which he occasionally performed songs he had sung with the Box Tops.The Box Tops' music combined elements of soul music and light pop. Their records are prime examples of the styles made popular by Moman and Penn at American Sound Studio in Memphis. Many of their lesser known Top 40 hits, including "Neon Rainbow", "I Met Her in Church", and "Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March", are considered minor classics. As rock critic Lester Bangs wrote in a review of the group's Super Hits album, "A song like 'Soul Deep' is obvious enough, a patented commercial sound, yet within these strictures it communicates with a depth and sincerity of feeling that holds the attention and brings you back often."Bill CunninghamBorn January 23, 1950, Memphis Tennessee.Plays bass (both bass guitar and upright bass), cello, piano, and organ.Bill's father was a SUN recording artist and worked with Sam Phillips at SUN studio intermittently from 1953-61. He first recorded under the name Buddy Cunningham and later under the name Buddy Blake. Buddy was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame as the first percussionist on an Elvis Presley record. That session at SUN took place September 10, 1954 and included the following songs:‘Tomorrow Night, Blue Moon Of Kentucky, I'll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin'), Just Because, Satisfied, Good Rockin' Tonight, I Don't Care If The Sun Don't Shine'Musicians: Elvis Presley, Scotty Moore, and Bill Black; Doug Poindexter – guitar, Buddy Cunningham – drum soundsBill's older brother, B.B. Cunningham Jr., was a member of The Hombres and sang and co-wrote the hit ‘Let It All Hang Out.' He played bass for Jerry Lee Lewis for almost 15 years.Bill played various instruments in a number of early 1960s Memphis bands, before joining the group that eventually became The Box Tops. One of these bands, The Jynx, included Chris Bell (who later founded Big Star). Between The Jynx and The Box Tops Bill played with another Memphis group called The Jokers, which included Richard Rosebrough who later would play on a number of Big Star, Alex Chilton, and Chris Bell recordings.Bill remained a member of the Box Tops until September of 1969, when he decided to return to school to get a music degree in performance (upright bass).Though Bill virtually vanished from the pop music scene after he left the Box Tops, he rose in the ranks of classical musicians, playing in many symphony orchestras and in ballet and opera companies throughout the Midsouth while attending university. During this period he backed in performance artists as diverse as Eddy Arnold, Van Cliburn, Isaac Hayes, the Romeros (Spanish guitarists), and Dionne Warwick.For a brief period Bill became a resident of Germany and worked, studied, and traveled in many European countries.During work on his Masters Degree in music (back in the United States), Bill worked with Chris Bell at Ardent Studio, providing the string arrangement for Chris' “You And Your Sister. ” Around this period, Bill competed with numerous bassists from across the country for an opening in the White House orchestra in Washington, DC. He won and moved to Washington. In the mid to late 1970s, he played for most White House dinners, receptions, and special quest performances for Presidents Ford and Carter and for many State Department celebrations for Secretaries of State Kissinger and Vance. During this period Bill played for numerous dignitaries, including the Queens of England and Holland, as well as various heads of states from around the world. Also, during this period Bill recorded sound tracks for a number of TV specials, including some with Jim Henson and the Muppets.Throughout his classical music career he played with many of the world's best known performers and conductors. For example, Bill's last classical-music public performance was backing Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman in a White House celebration at the signing of the Camp David Accord ( the Middle East peace agreement signed by Sadat, Begin, and Carter).In 1979, Bill was studying in Philadelphia with Roger Scott, the principal bassist of the Philadelphia Philharmonic, when he decided to change professions. This shift led to a MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree in international business and to a profession that assists with U.S. bilateral and multilateral trade issues.In 1996, Bill played the principal role in reforming the original Box Tops. He played bass and shared responsibility for keyboard parts with John on the ‘Tear Off' album. Bill toured with the group from 1997-2010, holding down the bottom end on stage with his bass lines.In 2015, Bill teamed up with Gary to bring back The Box Tops' music to audiences, playing bass and sharing vocal responsibilities.

"Introducing my new cookbook, NOURISH.200 new plant-based and gluten-free recipes to empower and inspire readersto prepare healthy and nourishing meals with ease and joy.""I'm a cookbook author, teacher, chef, writer, coach, and speaker. I've been empowering people to make healthy and sustainable diet and lifestyle changes for over two decades.How did I get here? My wake up call came when in college. My dad had suffered a heart attack, and my mom insisted I have my cholesterol checked. When I did, I was told simply that I was in a no risk category. I reported my “no risk” status to my mom, and she insisted I go back and have my blood drawn. Days later, I learned that my cholesterol was through the roof. Living on cafeteria food and delivery pizza was not going to allow me to improve my health, so I moved into an apartment with a kitchen and started teaching myself how to cook and eat real food.Most of my early meals consisted of brown rice, canned beans, and chopped raw vegetables. I had two techniques – toss it all with salad dressing or throw it all in a pot with water, simmer, and make soup (my family now lovingly refers to this as “Goodness Soup”). Most “healthy” cookbooks at that time were filled with dairy and sugar, so I just kept figuring it out on my own.The more accomplished I became in the kitchen, the more I craved deeper knowledge. I dove into classes in macrobiotics, integrative nutrition, and Ayurveda. I gave birth to two amazing daughters which required me to learn about food sensitivities and gut health. And I continued on my own journey, discovering the connection between food, body, mind, and soul.Many people thought I was crazy when they saw what I was eating, but a handful were curious enough to ask me to teach them how to cook with these “unusual” ingredients, and thank goodness they did. Twenty two years, four books, and hundreds of cooking classes later, I have that community to thank. Together we continue to find our way through an ever-changing food system, dig deep to understand our changing constitutions, support each other, shared countless hours in the kitchen, cook clean food, bake sourdough bread, ferment vegetables, eat, and embody the true meaning of nourishment." - Terry Walters https://www.terrywalters.net/

Before you choose a treatment strategy, you need to know whether you're facing sheep or wolves -- and where they all are.Murray Wadsworth was a fit and enthusiastic weekend triathlete who included regular checkups and annual screenings for prostate cancer in his overall health and wellness plan. At age forty-seven, though, he was caught off guard by a prostate cancer scare after a routine blood test. The biopsy came back clear, and Wadsworth carried on with his active life. But ten years later, another routine screening raised a concern. This time, the biopsy tested positive for cancer.Prostate Cancer: Sheep or Wolf? is the riveting story of one man's parallel journeys: Balancing a diagnosis of and treatment for prostate cancer while embarking on multiple RV road trips between treatment regimens throughout the US and Europe. This book offers a revealing and insightful look into how America's healthcare system leads men into blind alleys, fear traps, and under- and overtreatment.There is considerable confusion and misinformation about prostate cancer screening, including whether men should even screen at all and what to make of the results. But even when men think they're informed about symptoms and screening, the presence of prostate cancer can be missed.Despite regular PSA and DRE screening, Murray Wadsworth's cancer went undetected for years. When he was diagnosed at fifty-seven while working in England, he took no solace in the myth that prostate cancer is an old man's disease. But even a grim outlook and undefined stages couldn't keep Murray from pursuing the adventures of a lifetime. He understood the statistics, but dismissed immediate treatment. Instead, he took a different path.In this poignant, rigorously referenced narrative, Murray Wadsworth details his exhaustive personal quest—one that took him to Europe several times and saw him living in an RV and venturing through the Rocky Mountains. In Europe, he discovered an entirely different approach than he'd found in the US; European treatments were not propelled by marketing and profit, but rather by cutting-edge medical technologies that may have removed all his disease.READ THIS BOOK and learn in about two hours what it took Murray Wadsworth three years and countless medical consultations on two continents to learn: How to use groundbreaking technologies to thoroughly diagnosis the threat and make treatment decisions that are right for you.Confidence remains high that Wadsworth got all the sheep. With the right information, you can better understand the threat, and possibly beat prostate cancer too.I was a very healthy and active young man, not predisposed to prostate cancer and not in a high-risk category due to family histories or old age, but indeed came to have prostate cancer. I am a regular guy, leaving home at 18 and supporting myself ever since. I have a zest for life whilst being humble and discreet. I am a father of two and raised my children on my own from elementary school onward.When I was diagnosed I felt as if my life and lifestyle were on the line. I strived to avoid surgery, but after careful consideration ended up choosing that as my first treatment, wanting the full removal of the tumor burden. Radiation followed a year later. After another year advanced imaging identified remaining cancer.Results from that advanced imaging indicated the cancer had not yet settled in bone, a most common site for metastatic cancer. However, five lymph nodes in the pelvic region were suspect for malignancy. The best interpretation I have is that those mean sheep had moved beyond the barnyard, onto the roadside, but not yet onto the highway, back before my surgery. Too bad this amazing imaging technology was not known to me before the surgery."I have always wanted to write but until my experience with prostate cancer, I had not found the necessary passion or confidence. I am a successful small IT business owner, with offices in US and UK. However, I stepped away from the business at 58 to pursue my health options and to maximize every minute of life, including the writing of this book." - Murray Keith Wadsworth

David Libert transports us on his rockin' roller coaster ride with the original Alice Cooper Band, Alice Cooper, George Clinton, Parliament Funkadelic, The Runaways, Cherie Currie, “Supermensch” Shep Gordon, Prince, Sheila E, Guns N' Roses, The Happenings, Living Colour, Vanilla Fudge, Bootsy Collins, The Tokens, Brian Auger, and more!As a road manager, artist manager, musician, songwriter, record producer, and booking agent, Libert shares vivid tales from the inner circle of the music industry: on the road, backstage, on private jets, and inside the notorious after-parties with music legends in the era of free-spirit, hard-driving rock ‘n roll and R&B. It's life on the road in technicolor.David Libert had such a long and interesting career in the music business, his friends encouraged him to write a book about it…so he did. The result is an autobiography 50-plus years in the making aptly entitled Rock and Roll Warrior, recently released on Sunset Blvd Books. It's a chronicle of David's inner circle life in the music industry as a popular international performer, singer/songwriter, tour manager, booking agent, producer, and drug dealer on the Sunset Strip. It's a story so wild, so crazy, so over-the-top that it can only be true. You can't make this stuff up!In his book, he shares with the reader (and with you) unvarnished, no-holds-barred, stories of his life in the rock ‘n roll fast lane on the road, backstage, on private jets and inside notorious after-show parties with music legends in the era of free-spirit, hard driving rock ‘n' roll and R&B. It's life on the road in technicolor. A roller coaster ride peek behind the curtain at the good, the bad and the ugly in the music biz of years gone by.The book is a riotous, humorous, intimate, provocative story of Libert's life in music. He has absolutely no qualms about sharing stories of all aspects of his life that will amaze, titillate, impress, and endear him to those who read his fascinating life journey in music. From his tenure as co-lead singer of 60s pop hitmakers, The Happenings, to his role as tour manager for Alice Cooper's most legendary 70s tours, to managing funk/R&B legend George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic to eventually being imprisoned for dealing drugs in L.A.,

Alana, a mermaid, is having to come to terms with the fact that her grandmother, whom she loves very much, is coming to the end of her life cycle and will soon die. At first, she is confused and struggles to understand what is going on, confronted by many overwhelming feelings - anger, sadness, even guilt.Alana's grandmother supports her through her grief and gives her the space to come to terms with her feelings of loss by remembering and celebrating their time together and focusing on the love that they have for each other. This book aims to support parents and children aged 6 to 11 to process difficult feelings that arise when confronted with the loss of a loved one. Parents and guardians can use the story as a tool to support their child in reflecting on what is going on for them, creating a safe space to talk about feelings."No one is immune to experiencing loss at some point in life, and for many, our first experience with loss is that of a beloved grandparent. As a parent, you are suddenly thrown into a unique and complex role of grieving your own loss, along with helping your child cope with this new emotional experience.Love is a Gift is a beautiful way to open those conversations around the difficult process of grieving the loss of someone we love. With magical and soothing art, coupled with very real conversations around the subject, it will be a gift to the well-being of any child who will inevitably experience loss at some point in their lives."Born in 1974 and raised in London, Joanna P.A Moore is a BACP qualified and registered therapeutic counsellor since 2007 and runs her own private practice in Fulham. She also has over 18-year experience working in inner-city areas as a youth worker/program manager with young people aged 8 to 21, supporting young people's development and life skills through informal learning.Joanna was inspired to write “Love is the Gift” after the death of a very significant and influential person in her life in 2017. Christina was like a second mother to her.Also living with a rare life-threatening autoimmune condition ‘Addison's Disease' since 2009 and having two small children, Joanna felt that there was not enough literature out there to support her own children through the difficult feelings surrounding death. Wanting to create a tool that could help her own children and others, she embarked on creating the beautiful and poetical story about Elana the mermaid.“I encourage healthy conversation around death and don't believe that this subject should be just left until the inevitable happens. Death is a part of life and I choose to be part of that discussion with my own children. I want them to be prepared for difficult feelings that they will inevitably need to face one day, and I want them to know that having those feelings is perfectly normal. For me Love is the only true gift in this life, a gift that should be celebrated and shared”

When Ellen Jovin first walked outside her Manhattan apartment building ( September 21, 2018) and set up a folding table with a GRAMMAR TABLE sign, it took about thirty seconds to get her first visitor. Everyone had a question for her. The Grammar Table was such a hit—attracting the attention of The New York Times, NPR, and CBS Evening News—that Ellen soon took it on the road, traveling across the US to answer questions from writers, lawyers, businesspeople, students, bickering couples, and anyone else who uses words in this world. Rebel with a Clause tackles what is most on people's minds, grammatically speaking, and will delight anyone wishing to polish their prose or revel in our age-old, universal fascination with language.Ellen and her husband, Brandt Johnson, decided to take the table on the road. They visited 47 states before the Covid-19 pandemic hit, and Brandt filmed the action. Alaska, Hawaii, and Connecticut (yes, that faraway land) await the arrival of the table.Ellen talks about grammar with writers, editors, construction workers, salespeople, teachers, students, small children, doctors, dancers, seniors, and anyone else who uses words in this world. She creates community. Fan-favorite topics include the Oxford comma, spaces after periods, semicolons, “which” versus “that,” and whether you can end a sentence with a preposition (hint: you can!).But this story transcends grammar. It's the story of an epic quest, in a time of deep social division, to connect with America and bring us all closer together. Over grammar? Yeah. Say goodbye to your preconceptions. Say hello to Grammar Table.Ellen's book about the adventures of Grammar Table, titled Rebel with a Clause: Tales and Tips from a Roving Grammarian, was published by Mariner Books (HarperCollins) in July 2022.https://www.grammartable.com/https://www.ellenjovin.com/https://twitter.com/grammartableEllen has achieved fluency in six languages and has studied more than 25 in nine different writing systems. She was the lead organizer of the 2015 Polyglot Conference in New York City and has a large international social media following. She is a co-founder (with her husband, Brandt Johnson) of Syntaxis, a communication skills training and consulting firm whose clients include many multinational corporations. Earlier in her career, Ellen taught English as an adjunct lecturer at New York University and other colleges, and then spent several years as a full-time freelance writer.

If you have wondered how people are exploited into the sex trade and how they recover, then you will find this book detailing several enthralling stories to be a fascinating read.Ronald is with a law enforcement task force. Compelling case files are brought to life providing an insider's view into the sex trafficking underworld and bringing criminals to justice.Angela was five years old when she was sold by her family. Her captivating story of familial trafficking focuses on this survivor's tale of perseverance and healing in the face of adversity.Jessica was raped and later becomes an escort, porn star, and brothel madam. She reveals how and why she got into the business. Join her journey of redemption and recovery to exit the life.Jenelle is a passionate advocate for minors that have been sexually exploited. Several eye-opening stories are profiled, showing how this crime happened and their transformation from victim to survivor.John DiGirolamo is a critically acclaimed author, speaker and anti-human trafficking advocate. John wrote the book It's Not About the Sex because he believes that human trafficking is one of the most underreported issues of our day, that cuts across all economic, social, racial and political boundaries. He focused on stories from rural and suburban America, seeking to shine a light on and create awareness of the evils of human trafficking.https://itisnotabout.com/

Helen Benedict, award-winning British-American professor of journalism at Columbia University, teams up with Syrian writer and refugee, Eyad Awwadawnan, to present the stories of five refugees who have endured long and dangerous journeys from the Middle East and Africa to Greece. Hasan, Asmahan, Evans, Mursal and Calvin each tell their story, tracing the trajectory of their lives from homes and families in Syria, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Cameroon to the brutal refugee camps, where they are trapped in a strange and hostile world. These are compelling, first-person stories of resilience, suffering and hope, told in a depth rarely seen in non-fiction, partly because one of the authors is a refugee himself, and partly because both authors spent years getting to know the interviewees and winning their trust. The women and men in this book tell their stories in their own words, retaining control and dignity, while revealing intimate and heartfelt scenes from their lives.Helen Benedict, a professor at Columbia University, is the author of seven novels, six books of nonfiction, and a play.Her newest nonfiction book is, Map of Hope and Sorrow, while her eighth and related novel, The Good Deed, will be out in 2024. Benedict's previous novel, Wolf Season, was called "required reading" by Elissa Schappell and received a starred review in Library Journal, which wrote, “In a book that deserves the widest attention, Benedict ‘follows the war home,' engaging readers with an insightful story right up until the gut-wrenching conclusion.”​Benedict's 2011 novel, Sand Queen, which features some of the same characters as Wolf Season, was named a “Best Contemporary War Novel” by Publishers Weekly.A recipient of PEN's Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History, the Ida B. Wells Award for Bravery in Journalism and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, among other awards, Benedict is also the author of the books, The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women in Iraq; Virgin or Vamp: How the Press Covers Sex Crimes; and a play, The Lonely Soldier Monologues. ​As a nonfiction writer, Benedict's coverage of sexual assault in the U.S. military inspired the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Invisible War and instigated a landmark lawsuit against the Pentagon on behalf of victims of military sexual assault. Benedict's books on violence against women have won awards from Ms. magazine and elsewhere, and Benedict has published widely and spoken at Harvard University, TED Talks, West Point, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the United Nations, among other campuses and organizations.

When Mary Allen falls in love with Jim Beaman, she doesn't know he has a drug problem, but she does sense demons and angels around him, like "a disturbance in the air, a sound just beyond the register of human hearing." And when Jim—discouraged and depressed, struggling with his addiction—kills himself a year into their relationship, Allen is unable to let him go. In her desperate attempts to recover from the loss, she uses a Ouija board and automatic writing to pull back from reality into the dark recesses of her mind, where she believes she can find him. The result is a mesmerizing trip across the boundaries between this world and the afterlife, a journey that leads her to the brink of insanity and ultimately back to herself.Mary Allen is a memoir and fiction writer whose themes are spiritual and psychological healing, love, the nature of life and death, and the ways our states of consciousness intersect with our experience of reality. Her writing — and broad range of writing topics — reflect her belief that the personal and the practical, the painful and the numinous, the spiritual and the ordinary are all blended together in our lives and cannot be separated from one another without at least part of the truth being lost.